Roman  Catholics  in 
^    America  Falsifying 
History 


AND 


Poisoning  the  Minds  of 
Protestant  School  Children 


(jrc^VJ 


By  THOS.  E.  WATSON 

Author  of  "The  Story  of  France,"  "Napoleon,"  "Life  and 

Times  of  Andrew  Jackson,"  "Life  and  Times 

of  Thomas  Jefferson,"  "The  Roman 

Catholic  Hierarchy,"  Etc. 


Published   by 

THE  TpM  WATSON  BOOK  COMPANY, 

Thomson,   Ga. 

1928 


Copyright  1928  by 

GEORGIA  WATSON   LEE   BROWN, 

Thomson,  Ga. 


'  f  {l>*  V 


Roman  Catholics  in  America 
Falsifying  History 

And  Poisoning  the  Minds  of 
Protestant  School-children 


THIS  year  is  the  400th.  since  a  venereally  diseased  Pope, 
whose  dissipations  had  exhausted  the  Vatican  treasury, 
sent  out  monkish  peddlers  into  sundry  parts  of  Europe 
to  sell,  at  public  outcry,  the  papal  pardons  for  sin,  known  as 
"Indulgences." 

Originally,  an  Indulgence  was  a  financial  deal,  by  which 
the  Roman  Catholic  violator  of  church  rules  could  square  himself 
with  the  ecclesiastical  lords ;  just  as  the  peasants,  under  the  Feudal 
S}-stem,  could  pay  money  to  the  landlord  and  escape  menial  ser- 
vice, or  military  conscription. 

But  as  the  Papal  usurpation  grew  in  power,  it  naturally  grew 
also  in  greed. 

Each  successful  aggression  encouraged  the  popes  to  attempt 
another;  and  so  it  was,  that  the  Bishops  of  Rome  finally  became 
Gods-on-earth,  in  the  eyes  of  devout,  superstitious  Catholics. 

It  logically  follows  that,  if  we  have  a  God  on  earth,  this 
God  can  forgive  sins. 

Inasmuch  as  the  popes  had,  in  the  course  of  a  thousand  years,, 
reached  that  monstrous  height  of  self-assertion,  they  changed  the 
.  original  doctrine  of   Indulgence. 

What  had  formerly  been  nothing  more  than  the  remission  of 
church  penalties  (similar  to  the  remission  of  a  fine  by  one  of  our 
courts)  became  a  pardon  for  sin. 

This  preposterous  usurpation  of  Qod's  power  was  carried  to 
such  extreme  lengths,  that  the  popes  sold  Indulgences  which 
wiped  out  all  crimes  past,  present,  and  future;  and  the  price  to 
be  paid  was  set  against  each  crime,  in  a  regular  scale,  just  as 
you  would  list  the  prices  of  a  number  of  books,  of  horses,  of 
goods  in  a  store,  or  of  saleable  articles  at  a  church  fair. 

When  Pope  Leo  X.  found  his  Vatican  ducats  running  low, 
and  sent  out  his   peddlers   loaded   with   Indulgences,it   so   hap- 

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pened  that  monks,  of  a  peculiarly  bold  and  brazen  type,  were 
selected  as  papal  actioneers. 

These  peddling  monks  used  language  which  would  almost  con- 
vince us  that  they  themselves  despised  the  business  in  which  they 
were  compelled  to  engage. 

For  instance,  when  Tetzel  would  "cry"  his  goods  at  auction, 
in  the  market-place,  he  would  harangue  the  assembled  rustics  in 
words  like  these : 

"Lo !  the  heavens  are  open ;  if  you  enter  not  now,  when  will 
you  enter"? 

For  12  pence  you  may  redeem  the  soul  of  your  father  out  of 
purgatory. 

If  you  had  but  one  coat,  you  ought  to  strip  yourself  of  it 
instantly,  and  sell  it,  in  order  to  purchase  such  benefits. 

As  soon  as  the  money  tinkles  in  the  box,  the  souls  in  purga- 
tory instantly  escape  torment  and  ascend  to  heaven." 

(See  Robertson's  "Charles  V.,"  Vol.  1,  p.  462.) 

This  Tetzel  chanced  to  be  peddling  his  pardon-papers  in 
the  neighborhood  of  a  pious  monk,  named  Martin  Luther,  who 
had  found  a  copy  of  the  Bible,  among  the  musty  manuscripts  of 
the  monastery,  and  he  had  been  stimulated  by  the  Bible  to  study 
Christianity  for  himself. 

Therefore,  when  he  heard  Tetzel's  blasphemous  harangues, 
he  was  shocked,  and  when  he  read  one  of  the  papers  in  which 
Pop  Leo  granted  as  full  a  pardon  for  sin  as  God  could  grant,  his 
indignation  was  stirred. 

By  the  very  words  of  the  Indulgence,  this  licentious  Pope 
undertook  to  remit,  not  only  the  ecclesiastical  censures,  but  "from 
all  thy  sins,  transgressions,  and  excesses,  how  enormous  soever 
they  may  be. 

I  remit  you  all  punisliment  which  you  may  deserve  in  purgatory 

and  restore  you  to  that  innocence  which  you  possessed 

at  baptism;  so  that,  when  you  die,  the  gates  of  punishment  shall 
be  shut,  and  the  gates  of  the  paradise  of  delight  instantly  shall 
be  opened,  &c." 

(Robertson's  "Charles  V.,"  p.  462.) 

Martin  Luther,  the  pious  monk,  stood  so  well  with  the  Roman 
Catholic  high-priests  and  dignitaries,  that  he  had  been  selected 
by  them  to  take  charge  of  a  new  College  which  the  Elector  of 
Saxony  was  opening  in  Wittenberg. 

The  Elector  had  asked  them  to  choose  their  fittest  teacher  for 
this  responsible  and  honorable  post,  and  their  unanimous  choice 
had  fallen  upon  Brother  Martin. 

Therefore,  at  the  time  Tetzel  came  into  that  part  of  Ger- 
many, peddling  those  pardons,  Brother  Martin  had  no  cause  of 
quarrel  with  his  church.  Southern  Pamphlets 

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He  had  no  grievance,  no  grudge,  no  balked  ambition. 

He  had  all  to  gain,  by  remaining  silent. 

He  had  all  to  lose,  by  going  out  of  his  way  to  pick  a  quarrel 
with  Tetzel  and  the  Pope. 

CATHOLIC    TEXT    BOOKS    AND    TEACHERS    IN    PROTESTANT    SCHOOLS. 

In  the  Public  Schools  the  Catholics  have  stealthily  intro- 
duced text-books  written  by  Jesuits ;  and  your  children  are  being 
taught,  that  the  Roman  church  was  misunderstood  in  the  past; 
that  its  doctrines  are  not  fatal  to  humanity  and  Gospel  religion; 
that  is  record  is  not  saturated  with  the  blood  of  the  innocent 
millions,  murdered  by  papal  persecutors,  and  that  there  never  was 
such  a  monstrosity  as  the  alleged  sale  of  papal  pardons  of  sins. 

The  Catholics  denounce  secular  education  and  public  schools — 
whyf 

Because,  under  the  papal  system,  the  child  is  never  to  be  per- 
mitted to  do  its  own  thinking. 

Its  plastic  brain  must  be  papalized,  in  order  that  the  child — 
grown  to  manhood  or  womanhood — will  be  atrophied  on  one 
side  of  its  mind. 

In  other  words,  Catholic  education  seeks  to  prevent  the  boy 
and  girl  from  knowing  any  truth  which  may  set  in  motion  those 
dynamic  spurs  of  progress,  namely,  doubt,  desire  to  see  the  other 
side,    determination    to    investigate    and    form     independent 

OPINIONS. 

Educate  youth  in  this  Catholic  way,  and  the  consequences  are 
logical:  the  children  graduate  in  obedience;  feel  no  divine  thirst 
for  free  knowledge;  depend  upon  Authority,  rather  than  upon 
investigation;  cringe  to  the  priest;  look  to  him  for  guidance  and 
control;  lose  mental  self-reliance,  and  gradually  cease  to  be 
liberals,  progressives,  democrats,  republicans — believers  in  the 
capacity  of  the  people  to  govern  themselves. 

A  Catholic,  imbued  with  the  idea  that  he  is  not  entitled  to 
any  voice  in  church  affairs,  and  contented  with  the  dependent 
position  of  the  man  who  must  silently  pay  and  obey,  soon  ac- 
cepts the  POLITICAL  doctrine  of  his  church,  also;  and  he  comes  to 
believe  that  he  has  no  right  to  choose  rulers,  make  laws,  think 
for  himself  on  public  questions,  or  to  take  any  initiative,  what- 
ever. 

PRIEST-RIDDEN  IN  CHURCH,  HE  IS  READY  TO  BECOME  PRIEST-RIDDEN 

IN   STATE. 

Consequently,  no  Catholic  country  ever  was  democratic,  or 
republican,  until  the  Pope's  power  was  broken. 


Hierarchic  Catholicism  is  the  relii:(ion  of  emperors  and  kings, 
of  empires  and  kingdoms;  and  you  will  easily  see  why  this  is 
so,  if  you  will  remember  that  Popery  is  nothing  hut  an  adaptation 
of  the  organisation  of  the  Roman  emperors  and  their  Pagan 
priesthood. 

Consider    how    artfully    the    Pope's    American    subjects    are 
serving  him,   in  this  profoundly  important  matter  of   educating, 
the  young! 

Catholic  children  are  not  allowed  to  attend  your  schools;  nor 
are  your  teachers  and  text-books  allowed  in  theirs;  yet,  they  send 
their  children — grown  to  be  teachers — into  your  schools,  to  teach 
your  children ;  and  they  so  manipulate  the  Superintendents  and 
the  Boards,  that  Catholic  text-books  dAive  Protestant  text-hooks 
out  of  the  Protestant  schools! 

It  seems  incredible,  but  it  is  so. 

Consider  the  following  extract  from  a  letter  concerning  the 
Atlanta  Schools : 

Atlanta,   Ga.,   April   17,    1917. 

Dear  Sir:  The  history  teacher  at  "Girls  High"  leaves  the  im- 
pression on  the  minds  of  the  students  that  Robinson  (the  author 
of  the  text  book)  is  not  a  prejudiced  man,  (such  as  you,  for  instance,) 
and  is  endeavoring  to  lessen  the  antagonism  between  the  Roman 
Church  and  the  Protestant  churches. 

I  find  on  page  585  of  the  "Girls  High"  text  book  (Outlines  of 
European  History,  by  Robinson  and  Breasted),  and  on  page  391  of 
the  "Boys  High"  text  book  (History  of  Western  Europe,  by  J.  H. 
Robinson)  the  following  passages,  regarding  the  Indulgences  sold  by 
Tetzel: 

"The  contribution  to  the  church  which  was  made  in  return  for 
indulgences  varied  greatly;  the  rich  were  required  to  give  a  con- 
siderable sum,  while  the  very  poor  were  to  receive  these  pardons 
gratis."  Did  the  "very  poor"  get  them  free?  Also  this  statement: 
"It  is  a  common  mistake  of  Protestants  to  suppose  that  the  indulgence 
was  forgivenesss  granted  before  hand  for  sins  to  be  committed  in 
the  future.  THERE  IS  ABSOLUTELY  NO  FOUNDATION  FOR 
THIS  IDEA.  A  person  proposing  to  sin  could  not  possibly  be  con- 
trite in  the  eyes  of  the  church,  and  even  if  he  secured  indulgence  it 
would,  according  to  the  theologians,  have  been  quite  worthless." 

STUDENT. 

Now,  what  do  you  tliink  of  that  Papal  dope,  being  admin- 
istered to  young  Protestants,  by  the  pro-Catholic  teachers  and 
the  Catholic  text-books,  in  your  secular  Public  Schools? 

Such  prostitute  teachers  can  do  the  pope  more  good  than 
all  the  priests  put  together,  because  such  text-hooks  and  teachers 
can  sozv  papal  germs,  where  the  priests  could  never  gain  access 
to  the  fertile  soil  of  youth! 


WHAT   WERE   THE      INDULGENCES    T 

The  statement  in  this  PubHc  School  "History"  is  a  most 
unbkishing  falsehood,  and  it  can  be  as  easily  exposed  as  that 
other  papal  falsehood  about  Queen  Elizabeth  and  the  English 
Episcopalians. 

The  Indulgences  sold  by  Tetzel  can  be  proved  with  the  same 
historic  accuracy  that  the  Great  Charter  admits  of ;  with  the 
same  accuracy  as  the  Edict  of  Toleration  which  Henry  of  Navarre 
issued  in  behalf  of  the  French  Protestants,  and  zvhich  caused  the 
Jesuits  to  assassinate  its  enlightened  and  statesmanly  author. 

The  Catholic  authorities  themselves  print  the  decree  of  Pope 
Innocent  III.,  annulling  and  eternally  damning  the  Great  Charter 
of  our  liberties ;  and  the  Catholics  themselves  published  the  Scale 
of  Prices  for  the  Papal  Pardon  of  Sins ! 

In  Europe,  it  is  not  denied :  in  the  United  States,  it  is  denied ; 
in  Europe,  it  is  so  notorious  that  it  can't  be  denied:  in  the  United 
States,  the  lack  of  information  about  the  true  inwardness  of  this 
Einxipcan  church  is  so  deplorably  universal,  that  it  can  be  denied ! 

NOT  ONLY  DENIED^  BUT  TAUGHT  IN  OUR  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS  ! 

(The  following  authorities  are  a  few  of  the  many  that  can 
be  cited  to  prove  that  the  Indulgences  sold  by  pope  after  pope, 
for  centuries,  were  pardons  for  sins,  not  only  past,  but  future; 
not  only  for  living,  but  for  the  dead : 

William  H.  Prescott's'  edition  of  "Robertson's  Charles  the 
Fifth."  Lippincott  Co.,  1884.  Pages  460  and  following,  volume 
I.,  giving  the  origin  of  Indulgences  under  Pope  Urban  II.,  and 
copying  the  Indulgences  verbatim. 

Coxe's  "House  of  Austria,"  Vol.  1,  page  430  and  follow- 
ing. The  author  copies  the  actual  words  of  the  Indulgence, 
verbatim. 

Markham's  "History  of  Germany,"  John  Murray's  new  and 
revised  edition,  1869.     Page  218: 

"At  first  these  Indulgences  were  nothing  more  than  the  re- 
mission of  penance  for  sin  In*  which  the  Christian  community  was 
scandalized ;  but  the  horrijjle  doctrine  began  at  length  to  be  intro- 
duced, that  exemi>tions  from  the  fires  of,  purgatory  might  also 
be  purchased,  not  only  on  account  of  crimes  already  perpetrated, 
but  even  for  those  zvhich  the  buyer  intended  to  commit." 

See,  also,  Larned's  "Seventy  Centuries":  Vol.  II.,  p.  66.) 
Menzel's  "Germany  from  the  Earliest  Period":  published  in 


8 

New  York  by  the  Catholic  firm.  P.  F.  CoUier  &  Son,  1900.     Page 
872  (in  Vol.  II.)  says: 

"On  October  31,  1517,  Luther  publicily  brought  forward  in 
the  castle-church  at  Wittenberg,  95  theses  against  the  Indulgence, 
the  principal  of  which  were,  "that  by  sincere  repentance  and 
penance  alone,  not  by  the  payment  of  a  sum  of  money,  could  sins 
be  remitted,  and  consequently,  that  the  pope  had  no  right  to  dis- 
pense absolution  for  money :  moreover,  that  the  pope,  being  mere- 
ly the  vice-regent  of  God  upon  earth,  could  only  remit  the  ex- 
ternal j.cnanccs  ordained  by  the  church  on  earth,  not  the  eternal 
piin'uliincnt  awarded  to  the  sinner  after  death. 

This  bold  assertion,  like  a  spark  of  vivid  light  amid  profound 
darkness,  rendered  the  truth  fully  visible,  once  the  spell  of  silence 
broken,  thousands  ventured  to  utter  their  secret  thoughts ; 
thousands  became  aware  of  facts  of  which  they  had  before  timidly 
doubted." 

Timidly  doubted,  what? 

They  did  not  doubt  that  the  pope  could  remit  the  penalties 
incurred  for  infractions  of  the  church's  rules.     No ! 

What  they  had  timidly  doubted  was,  the  pope's  power  to  take 
the  place  of  God,  and  forgive  sins :  especially,  when  the  sinner  had 
not  repented,  but  had  only  paid  money  for  the  remission. 

Wolfgang  Menzel's  "Germany"  is  as  thoroughly  standard, 
as  Gibbons'  "Rome,"  Green's  "England,"  Rawlinson's  "Seven 
Great  Monarchies,"  Thierry's  "Norman  Conquest,"  or  Napier's 
"Peninsular  War." 

It  goes  to  the  American  reader  with  the  a.  k.  of  the  great 
Catholic  publishing  house  of  Peter  Collier  &  So7i:  it  tells  the  truth 
about  those  Indulgences,  just  as  all  other  standard  works  tell  it. 

If  Luther's  quarrel  with  Pope  Leo  X.  did  not  pivot  on  that 
very  question,  what  was  the  pivot? 

What  was  it  that,  as  Menzel  says,  was  like  a  flash  of  "vivid 
light  amid  profound  darkness"  ? 

If  the  popes  had  not  been  selling  pardons  for  sin,  how  came 
Leo  to  do  it;  and  if  Leo  wasn't  doing  it,  zvJiat  aroused  Martin 
Luther? 

WHAT   STARTED   THE   REFORMATION.^ 

According  to  the  Catholic  text-book  taught  in  the  public 
schools,  the  Reformation  was  started  about  nothing. 

Isn't  it  an  infernal  shame  that  your  children  should  be  officially 
crammed  with  Jesuit  lies,  meant  to  blind  them  as  to  the  origin 


of  modern  progress,  civil  and  religious  liberty,  popular  education, 
free  institutions,  the  abolition  of  serfdom,  and  the  Emancipation 
of  Woman? 

JVc  owe  all  of  these  inestimable  blessings  to  the  Reformation, 
which  successfully  began  when  Martin  Luther  denied  that  the 
popes  could  sell  forgiveness  for  sins. 

Having  taken  tliat  bold  step,  the  logic  of  events  led  him  to 
take  others,  until  he  broke  away  from  the  Roman  church,  saying 
•  that  it  had  no  more  right  to  imprison  women,  hide  the  Bible  and 
murder  heretics,  than  it  had  to  sell  pardons  of  sin. 

Two  of  the  grounds  upon  which  the  Roman  church  excom- 
municated Luther,  were,  that  he  did  deny  the  church's  right  to 
burn  heretics,  and  did  deny  the  pope's  authority  to  take  money 
for  the  remission  of  sin. 

The  exact  copy  of  the  Indulgence  issued  by  Pope  Leo  X.  is 
also  found  in  "The  History  of  Protestantism,"  by  Dr.  J.  A. 
Wylie. 

Cassell  &  Company,  London,  Paris,  New  York,  and  Mel- 
bourne.    Vol.  L,  page  258. 

D'Aubigne's  "History  of  the  Reformation,"  page  7Z,  also 
copies  the  Indulgence,  and  gives  a  graphic  account  of  how  the 
poor,  as  well  as  the  rich,  were  cheated  out  of  their  money. 

None  of  the  Indulgences  were  ever  given  away:  they  were 
all  sold. 

PAPAL  TARIFF  ON  SINS. 

The  Price-list  of  papal  pardons  of  sins,  can  be  found  in  the 
"History  of  Auricular  Confession,"  by  Count  C.  P.  Lasteyrie. 
Vol.  II.     Page  132  et  seq. 

It  is  referred  to  in  the  "History  of  Sacerdotal  Celibacy." 
By  H.  C.  Lea,  L.  L.  D.,  1907.  Vol.  I.,  p.  411 :  Vol.  II.,  p.  55, 
and  715. 

See,  also,  the  "Formulary  of  the  Papal  Penitentiary,"  pp.  95- 
100,  Philadelphia,  1891. 

An  original  copy  of  the  first  printed  edition  of  this  famous 
Price-list  of  Sins^-whose  official  name  is  "Taxes  of  the  Peni- 
tentiary"— is  preserved  in  the  British  Museum. 

The  book  itself  and  the  list  of  prices,  are  as  provable  as  the 
Law  of  Habeas  Corpus,  or  the  first  American  Tariff. 


Catholics  in  American  History 


THE    Fort    Worth    Record,    Tex.,    joyfully    prints    a    string 
of  lies  told  by  "Father"  Frank  Park,  in  a  recent  spiel  to 
the  pope's  band  of  American  foot-kissers,  the  Knights  of 
Columbus. 

Said  string  of  lies  follows,  as  an  exhibit  of  Roman  mendacity, 
and  of  the  willingness  of  our  daily  papers  to  publish  the  output 
of  mendacious  papal  propaganda: 

That  America's  liberty  today  is  directly  due  to  Catholics,  and 
that  ever  since  there  has  been  such  a  country  as  the  United  States, 
Catholics  have  alwaj-s  been  patriotic,  loj-al  and  true,  was  the  con- 
tention of  the  speaker.  The  life  of  Columbus  was  reviewed  from 
his  birth  in  Ital^'  down  to  the  discovery  of  America,  the  saving  of 
the  liberty  of  the  country  by  Lafayette  and  other  Catholics;  the 
financing  of  Washington's  army  by  four  Irishmen  of  Philadelphia,  all 
Catholics,  when  starvation  and  exposure  had  almost  ruined  it,  and 
other  deeds  of  valor  of  direct  bearing  upon  the  formation  and  estab- 
lishment of  the  United  States  as  a  country,  were  referred  to. 

"It  was  a  Catholic  who  discovered  this  country;  it  was  a  Catholic 
queen  who  financed  the  expedition  that  gave  this  country  to  the  world 
as  a  civilized  nation;  it  was  Catholic  soldiers  who  saved  it  from  the 
iron  hand  of  oppression,  and  it  was  Catholic  money  that  financed 
it  in  its  darkest  hour  and  clothed  and  fed  its  armj'  in  time  of  distress, 
and  yet  we,  as  Catholics,  are  charged  with  disloyalty,"  declared  Father 
Park.  "I  often  wonder  why  we  Catholics,  we  Knights  of  Columbus, 
are  questioned  as  to  our  loyalty  when  these  facts  show  that  America 
is  our  countr}'." 

Every  one  of  those  statements  is  a  most  unblushing,  pre- 
meditated, inexcusable,  unscrupulous  falsehood. 

The  several  discoveries  of  this  continent,  the  first  of  which 
was  by  Scandinavian  pagans,  did  not  become  important,  so  far 
as  our  national  existence  is  concerned,  until  successful  coloniaa- 
iion  took  place ;  and  that  was  accomplished  by  the  Protestants  of 
England  and  the  Huguenots  of  France. 

This  is  a  historical  fact  which  no  honest  scholar  will  deny, 
and  if  "Father"  Park  is  ignorant  of  it,  he  is  unfit  to  discuss 
the  subject. 

No  Catholic  colony  thrived:  no  good  to  this  country  is  trace- 
able to  Columbus.  On  the  contrary,  he  introduced  slavery,  and 
thus  became  morally  responsible  for  the  extermination  of  the 
natives  of  the  West  Indies. 

The  Puritans  of  New  England  and  the  Episcopalians  of 
Virginia,  together  with  the  Scotch-Irish  Presbyterians,  the  French 

(10) 


11 

Huguenots  of   the  CaroHnas.    founded  the   Democratic  Repu1)lic 
of  the  United  States. 

The  Catholic  church  is  the  historic  foe  of  Democracies  and 
Republics,  loecause  her  law  and  her  system  are  monarchical,  anti- 
democratic, and  anti-liberal. 

A  church  which  laid  its  official  curse  upon  the  Great  Char- 
ter of  our  liberties,  takes  you  for  an  ignoramus,  when  it  claims 
to  be  the  founder  of  this  Government,  whose  Supreme  Laws  em- 
brace the  principles  of  the  Great  Charter. 

A  church  which  has  for  20  years  fought  and  scotched  an 
Immigration  liill,  because  its  reading  test  would  expose  the  fact 
that,  in  Catholic  countries  the  people  are  not  taught  to  read,  dis- 
plays amazing  effrontery,  when  it  claims  credit  for  our  Govern- 
ment, based  as  it  is,  upon  free  education,  free  thought,  free  speech, 
free  vote,  and  people's  rule. 

How  asinine  it  is  the  gabble  about  LaFayette  -saving  the 
liberties  of  our  country ! 

In  the  first  place,  LaFayette  was  not  a  Catholic,  and  I  have 
published  the  evidence,  again  and  again.  He  hated  priests  es- 
pecially. He  helped  to  overthrow  them,  and  to  confiscate  the 
huge  loot  which  they  had  got  together  in  France. 

He  utterly  detested,  loathed,  and  despised  the  popish  system, 
because  it  is  a  Pagan  affair,  imposed  upon  Christians  who  don't 
know  its  true  nature,  and  who  are  never  allowed  to  learn. 

Such  priests  as  "Father"  Park  keep  the  eyes  of  papal  dupes 
securely  sealed. 

In  the  second  place,  LaFayette's  share  in  Washington's  suc- 
cess was  almost  negligible,  not  to  compare  with  that  of  John 
Laurens,  John  Paul  Jones,  and  the  obscure  Southern  leaders, 
who  won  the  Battle  of  King's  Mountain. 

In  the  third  place,  our  liberties  were  not  at  stake  in  the 
Revolutionary  War,  which  was  fought  because  the  Mother  Coun- 
try claimed  the  right  to  tax  us.  in  England,  on  account  of  the 
extra  expense  incurred  by  her  in  defending  us  from  the  Catholic 
governments  of  Spain  and  France. 

Had  we  been  defeated  in  that  War,  our  liberties  as  English 
subjects  zvould  have  remained ;  and  we  would  now  perhaps  have 
as  much  true  democracy  and  home-rule  as  are  at  present  enjoyed 
by  Canada,  Australia,  and  New  Zealand. 

The  colonists  who  fought  seven  years  for  Independence, 
politically,  never  dreamed  that  we  would  lose  personal,  commer- 
cial, industrial,  and  political  independence  to  American  Corpora- 
tions, the  Money  Power,  and  the  usurping  Federal  Judiciary. 

"Father"  Park  says  that  four  Catholics  financed  the  Revo- 
lutionary War. 


12 

No  such  thing  happened.  It  is  an  impudent  invention.  Not 
one  shred  of  historical  evidence  can  be  brought  forward  to  sus- 
tain it. 

Catholics  helped  to  fight  England,  partly  because  England 
had  recently  fought  the  popes. 

Scotch  and  Irish  Catholics  hated  England  intensely,  because 
the  Catholic  attempt  to  recapture  the  British  throne  had  been 
bloodily  defeated,  in  Ireland,  at  the  Battle  of  the  Boyne;  and,  in 
England,  at  the  Battle  of  Culloden. 

This  last  occured  in  1745,  just  a  few  years  before  the  Revo- 
lutionary War  started. 

France  herself  loaned  the  Colonies  money,  and  encouraged 
adventurous  young  LaFayettes,  Dillons,  Lauzuns,  etc.,  to  come 
over  on  our  side,  because  of  the  long,  long  struggle  between 
Catholic  Kings  of  France,  and  Protestant  Kings  of  England. 

Catholic  loyalty  about  which  we  are  hearing  so  much  tommy- 
rot  and  slumguUion,  these  days,  has  never  been  tested  in  this 
country. 

There  is  no  test,  until  the  pope  is  on  one  side  and  the  Govern- 
ment on  the  other. 

Then  the  test  comes,  and  then  it  is  you  ^ee  the  Catholics  betray 
the  Government  in  obedience  to  the  pope. 

Look  at  the  French  Catholics  in  Canada!  They  refuse  to 
fight  for  their  own  Empire  in  this  War,  because  the  pope  is  now 
trying  to  revenge  the  Papacy  on  England,  for  its  defiant  break- 
away from  Rome  during  the  Reformation. 

Look  at  the  Irish  Catholics!  They  refuse  to  fight  for  their 
Empire,  and  have  been  traitorously  fighting  with  the  pope  and 
the  German  despots. 

England's  main  weakness  today  is  the  disloyalty  of  her  Catho- 
lic subjects. 

These  papists  have  been  enjoying  all  the  immense  privileges 
of  British  citizenship,  and  they  are  just  as  truly  the  subjects  of 
the  Empire  as  the  Scotch  are,  but  their  priests  ordered  them  not 
to  enlist,  and  they  have  obeyed  the  mandates  of  their  church. 

Under  the  same  circumstances,  our  Catholics  will  do  the  same. 

If  we  go  to  war  with  the  German  despots,  every  Romanist 
chaplain  will  be  a  German  spy,  and  every  Catholic  priest  an  in- 
strument of  treason. 

That's  what  they  are  now,  in  Canada;  that's  what  they  are, 
in  Ireland ;  and  that's  what  they  are,  at  heart,  in  this  Union. 

Their  oaths  bind  them  to  the  foreign  potentate  who  despot- 
ically rules  their  foreign  church. 

They  are  papal  subjects,  first,  and  American  subjects,  second. 


Poisoning  the  Fountain,  to  Papalize 
the  Stream 


T 


HE  American  Book  Company  is,  in  fact,  the  School-book 
Trust;  and  it  is  controlled  by  Roman  Catholics,  of  New 
York  and  Chicago. 

For  many  years,  it  has  had  a  strangle-hold  upon  the  South- 
ern States,  because  of  its  well-spent  money.  If  circumstances 
make  a  case,  it  has  bribed  newspapers,  State  School  Commis- 
sioners, County  School  officers,  and  Principals  in  high  schools 
— not  all,  but  enough  to  keep  the  Trust  in  full  possession  of  its 
monopoly. 

More  than  a  million  children  are  being  educated  in  the  Pope's 
parochial  schools,  where  none  but  Catholic  teachers  are  employed, 
and  where  every  book  used  is  thoroughly  papist. 

Not  a  line  favorable  to  Protestant  principles,  or  to  demo- 
cratic principles,  can  find  a  place  in  those  Catholic  text-books. 

The  pupils  are  taught  to  abhor  everything  antagonistic  to 
popery,  and  admonished  that  their  souls  will  be  in  dangerof  hell- 
fire,  if  they  read  any  book,  or  paper  which  exposes  Romanism. 

Thus,  Catholic  education  seals  the  mind  of  the  Catholic 
child,  and  it  becomes  closed,  to  anything  but  Catholic  literature. 

Let  these  millions  of  children,  who  are  every  year  attending 
the  parochial  schools,  grow  into  manhood  and  womanhood,  to 
become  fathers  and  mothers,  whose  children,  in  their  turn,  will  he 
given  the  same  anti-Protestant  training,  and  you  can  see  what  a 
host  of  enemies  our  democratic  institutions  will  have  to  contend 
with,  in  a  few  years. 

But  the  Roman  Catholics  are  not  satisfied  with  the  exclu- 
sive control  of  their  own  schools:  they  have  reached  out  and  in- 
vaded ours. 

Into  our  Public  Schools— and  even  into  private  Protestant 
schools— they  have  thrust  their  teachers,  to  subtly  propagate 
popery. 

They  introduce  symbols  that  are  peculiarly  popish,  and  in  this 
way  the  minds  of  the  Protestant  children  are  familiarized  with 
the  system,  and  silently  taught  not  to  antagonize  it. 

The  crucifix,  the  madonna,  the  nun's  garb,  the  priest's  habit, 
the  picture  of  Christ  and  the  angels,  the  image  of  the  Virgin, 

(13) 


14 

&c..  artfully  placed  where  the  pupils  constantly  see  them,  each 
silently  in  favor  of  a  foreign  system  which  is  nothing  in  the 
world  but  ancient  Paganism  masquerading  under  Christian  names. 

Heathen  idolatry — borrowing  the  words.  Christ.  Mary.  Joseph, 
Peter,  Paul,  &c. — comes  into  Christian  lands,  and  impudently 
says,  "Accept  idolatry,  and  pay  a  high  price  for  it,  because  I  have 
condescended  to  change  the  names  of  Jove.  Juno,  Venus,  Cybele, 
and  Pluto,  for  those  of  Jehovah,  Mary,  Anne,  Joseph,  Peter, 
Paul,  and  Satan." 

You  remember  the  old  lines  of  the  poet  who  says,  that  Vice 
is  a  monster  of  so  frightful  a  mein  that,  when  first  seen,  it  ex- 
cites horror,  but  seen  too  often,  "we  first  endure,  then  pity,  then 
embrace." 

Those  old  familiar  lines  exactly  fit  the  lesson  I  am  trying  to 
drive  home. 

Roman  Catholicism  when  first  seen,  with  its  images,  pros- 
trations, Latin  mummeries,  daytime  candles,  unmarried  priests, 
walled-up  women,  fake  miracles,  medal  swindles,  adoration  of 
a  foreign  Italian  priest,  utter  abasement  of  the  laity,  inner  secrets, 
nght-hawk  secret  societies,  armed  military  organizations ;  wafers 
made  into  gods,  and  then  eaten ;  wine  made  into  blood,  and  then 
drunken — all  this  excites  disgust,  loathing,  horror,  u'lieii  first 
seen. 

"But,  seen  too  oft,  familiar  with  her  face. 
We  first  endure,  then  pity,  then  embrace." 

At  public  ceremonies  of  all  kinds;  in  street  parades,  so  dear 
to  the  papist  i)ropaganda ;  in  the  "field  mass";  in  the  celebration 
of  every  possible  public  function  ;  in  the  display  of  papal  statues, 
in  paintings,  signs,  and  emblems ;  in  the  indefatigable  efforts  of 
the  priest  to  push  himself  on  to  every  public  stage,  and  to  put 
his  finger  into  every  public  pie;  in  the  constant  self-exhibitions 
of  Ancient  Hibernians.  Knights  of  Columbus,  Cardinals,  bishops, 
chaplains,  St.  Patrick  displays,  and  Columbus  Day  fanfaronade — 
at  all  times  and  places.  Romanism  shows  its  best  face,  hoping 
to  lull  its  enemies  ino  forgetfulness  of  its  -a'orst. 

When  it  invades  our  Pul)lic  Schools,  with  its  County  Super- 
intendent, or  its  members  of  the  City  Board,  or  its  "Sister"  in 
the  class-room,  or  its  symbols  displayed  on  the  wall,  the  apjiroach 
is  insidious  enough,  God  knows ! 

The  greater  menace,  however,  is  in  the  [^apaliaed  text-book. 

If  the  mind  of  the  Protestant  child  can  be  jioisoncd  by  papal 
(loi)e.  /';/  ///('  Protestant  school,  then  the  i'rotestant  academy  be- 
comes a  nursery  of  Popery. 


15 

And  the  work  of  the  papaHzed  text-book  in  the  Protestant 
school  becomes  even  more  effective  for  the  designs  of  poHtical 
popery,  than  the  CathoHc  text-book  is,  because  a  text-book,  plain- 
ly Catholic,  coukl  not  reach  the  Protestant  schools  and  do  mis- 
sionary vv^ork  among  Protestant  children. 

The  text-book  vi^hich  claims  to  be  Protestant,  but  which  is  in 
fact.  Catholic,  does  infinitely  more  harm  than  the  books  which 
are  nndisquisedly  Catholic,  on  the  same  principle  that  the  wolf, 
disguised  as  a  sheep,  is  the  most  dangerous  of  all  wolves  to  the 
flock. 

Suppose  the  Protestant  child  can  be  educated  to  believe  that 
there  is  no  material  difference  between  the  past  records  of  Roman- 
ism and  Protestantism  ;  and  that  Protestant  churches,  governments, 
monarchs,  and  official  representatives  committed  crimes,  in  the 
name  of  religion,  just  as  Rome  must  confess  that  she  did.  what 
follows  ? 

It  naturally  follows  that  the  child  will  grow  up  with  the  idea 
that  the  Romanism  which  was  once  dangerous  to  liberty,  progress, 
and  life,  perished  from  earth,  ages  ago. 

If  the  Protestant  boy  becomes  a  man,  /;/  that  belief,  he  will 
be  hard  to  move,  when  he  is  asked  to  consider  that  Rome  has 
never  changed  her  laws,  her  system,  her  purposes,  or  her 
methods. 

He  will  sneer  at  the  T.utherans.  who  manifest  the  acal  of 
Martin  Luther ;  at  the  Presbyterians,  who  dis])lay  the  fervor  of 
John  Knox  ;  at  the  Episcopalians,  who  wear  the  militant  garb  of 
Latimer  and  Ridley;  at  the  Baptists,  who  fight  with  the  flaming 
swords  of  Bunyan,  and  Roger  Williams. 

Such  a  Pnjtestant  pupil,  grown  to  manhood,  will  be  ])rac- 
tically  the  friend  of  Popery  and  the  foe  of  Protestantism,  be- 
cause his  attitude  of  scornful  indifference  will  influence  others 
to  believe  that  the  Roman  leopard  must  have  changed  its  spots. 

It  cannod  no7v  be  what  it  used  to  be,  else  this  educated 
Protestant  would  not  be  so  contemptuously  unfriendly  to  anti- 
Catholic  agitators. 

PAPALIIED  TRXT-15()()KS  ! 

A  few  daws  ago.  I  received  a  letter  from  an  Atlanta  school- 
boy, containing  the  ]jaragraph  below : 

I  showed  Albert of  tlie  Boys'  High  School  (Atlanta)  your 

statement  to  the  effect  tiiat  the  Protestants  had  neither  persecuted  nor 
burnt  Roman  Catholics.  He  is  the  smartest  boy  in  town,  and  when 
I  said  that,  he  immediately  said  you  were  wrong.  I  asked  for  proof 
and  he  brought  me  his  history  te.xt :  "Outlines  of  European  History" 
by  Robinson  and  Breasted,  wliich  is  used  in  "Boys  High"  and  "Girls 
High"  of  this  city. 


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The  following  is  on  page  618:  "The  Catholics,  it  should  be 
noted,  later  suffered  serious  persecution  under  Elizabeth  and  James 
I.,  the  Protestant  successors  of  Mary.  Death  was  the  penalty  fixed 
in  many  cases  for  those  who  obstinately  refused  to  recognize  the 
monarch  as  the  rightful  head  of  the  English  church,  and  heavy  fines 
were  imposed  for  failure  to  attend  Protestant  worship.  Two  hundred 
Catholic  priests  are  said  to  have  been  executed  under  Elizabeth,  Mary's 
sister,  who  succeeded  her  on  the  throne;  others  were  tortured  or 
perished   miserably   in   prison." 

For  years,  a  Roman  Catholic  has  been  at  the  head  of  the 
County  Board;  for  years,  they  have  employed  Catholic  teachers; 
for  years,  the  State  School  Superintendent  has  been  deaf  to 
every  criticism  of  his  methods,  although  his  methods  were  Catho- 
lic and  illegal ! 

Last  year,  one  of  the  salaried  officers  of  the  State,  delivered 
addresses  in  the  public  schools,  repeating  the  lesson  she  learned 
from  the  Catholic  text-book  which  is  taught  in  our  Public 
Schools. 

Miss  Parish  not  only  defended  the  use  of  the  State's  money 
in  the  Catholic  religions  schools,  but  she  defended  Bloody  Queen 
Mary,  and  said  that  Queen  Elizabeth  had  persecuted  the  Catholics, 
as  ferociously  as  Mary  did  the  Protestants. 

Evidently  Miss  Parish  got  her  lesson  out  of  the  same  book 
that  duped  the  boy. 

Who  are  these  authors,  "Robinson  and  Breasted"?   ? 

There  is  an  Illinois  author  named  Breasted  who  is  put  down 
as  an  "Orientalist,"  in  the  well-known  biographical  encyclopedia, 
Who's  Who.  He  is  an  expert  on  Eastern  languages,  Egyptology 
and  Oriental  history.  The  sketch — prepared  by  himself — makes 
no  mention  of  his  qualifications  as  an  authority  on  English  history, 
but  specifies  at  length  his  studies  and  his  works  on  Oriental 
subjects. 

He  doesn't  say  a  word  about  his  qualifications  for  revolution- 
izing the  history  of  England,  and  making  Bloody  Mary  and 
Queen  Elizabeth  twin-sisters. 

There  are  so  many  authors,  named  Robinson,  whose  biogra- 
phies appear  in  Who's  Who,  that  it  is  impossible  for  me,  with- 
out the  aid  of  the  text-book  itself,  to  identify  its  co-author. 

But,  let  us  try  to  find  out  whether  the  authors,  Breasted 
and  Robinson,  loaned  their  names  to  a  deliberate  falsehood. 

If  what  the  book  says  is  a  lie,  we  know  why  it  was  written, 
published,  and  introduced  into  the  Public  Schools. 

My  long  introduction  will  have  shown  you  the  reason  for 
poisoning  the  minds  of  the  Protestant  children,  if  they  have  been 
poisoned. 

If  Albert had  heard  a  Catholic  priest  accuse  Queen 

EHzabeth  of  murdering  Catholics  on  account  of   their  religion, 


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he  would  not  have  beheved  it;  but  when  the  hoy  was  taught  this, 
as  a  lesson  in  his  school,  what  could  he  do  but  believe  ? 

It  never  entered  his  head  that  the  Catholic  Book  Trust  could 
use  our  pretended  Protestant  officials,  as  papal  proselyters. 

Aren't  a  majority  of  the  Boards,  the  Principals,  et  cetera,  all 
sound  in  their  complacent  Protestantism?  So  far  as  lips  go, 
they  are. 

Then,  when  they  adopt  and  teach  a  Catholic  text-book,  slily 
padded  with  Catholic  lies,  what  can  the  pupils  do,  except  to  get 
their  lessons  out  of  the  Catholic  book? 

Thus  do  we  build  school-systiems,  and  maintain  them  at 
enormous  expense,  only  to  find  that  we  are  furnishing  academies 
for  the  propagation  of  popery ! 

In  my  day,  the  text-book  on  the  "Outlines  of  History,"  was 
"Robbin's."  A  fine  old  work  it  is.  No  better  one  has  ever  been 
produced. 

It  was  published  by  J.  B.  Lippincott  in  1857,  when  I  was 
three  years  old,  and  I  studied  it  at  the  Steed  High  School,  in 
Thomson. 

What  were  we  Protestants  taught  about  Queen  Mary,  at  the 
Thomson  High  School,  in  1869-70-71?    This: 

"Mary,  Edward's  sister,  next  ascended  the  throne,  in  1553. 
History  has  assigned  to  her  the  unenviable  title  of  'bloody,'  from 
the  persecutions  and  martyrdoms  suffered  by  the  Protestants 
in  her  reign.  Her  disposition  was  morose,  tyrannical,  and  cruel, 
in  the  highest  degree.  Bent  upon  the  restoration  of  the  Catholic 
religion,  she  hesitated  at  no  measures,  however  unjust,  which 
were  calculated  to  effect  the  object." 

That  summary  is  conservatively  and  impartially  true.  In  a 
book  of  Outlines,  Dr.  Robbins  could  not  go  into  the  hideous 
details  and  tell  how  this  frenzied  Catholic  queen,  egged  on  by 
the  pope,  by  the  priests,  and  by  her  monstrous  husband,  Philip  II. 
of  Spain,  burnt  more  than  280  men,  wom'en,  and  children,  because 
they  refused  to  say  that  priests  could  create  God  out  of  bread. 

One  of  the  men  she  burnt  was  the  venerable  Archbishop 
Cranmer,  who,  in  part,  was  author  of  the  "Great  EngUsh  Bible" 
whose  translation,  from  the  dead  language  into  the  living,  gave 
such  mortal  offense  to  Rome. 

Among  the  victims  were  "bishops,  divines,  country  gentlemen, 
artificers,  husbandm'en,  servants,  laborers,  wives,  widows,  spin- 
sters,  two   boys,  AND  TWO     INFANTS." 

(Sanderson,  "History  of  England,"  page  455.  Published  in 
1893.) 


"The   Catholic   Laymen's   Associa 

tion"  Re-writes  History,  Placing 

Fables  Where  Facts  Belong 


I 


T  IS  comical  to  see  such  men  as  compose  the  CathoHc  Lay- 
men's Association  transforming  them'eselves  into  megaphones, 
through  which  the  Jesuit  priests  can  talk  "history"  to  the  un- 


Let  us  examine  a  few  points  in  the  Laymen's  historical  dis- 
courses, and  see  how  thev  agree  with  historical  facts. 


WYCLIFFE  DIED    IN    HIS   BED 

Addressing  a  circular  letter  to  my  friend,  Rev.  S.  G.  Woodall, 
of  the  LaGrange,  Ga.,  Graphic,  the  Laymen's  chairman,  J.  J, 
Farrell.  thus  repeats  the  lesson  taught  him  hy  his  Jesuit  priest: 

"Wycliffe  died  in  his  bed,  on  the  31st  of  December,  1384,  from 
a  stroke  of  apoplexy  received  tliree  days  previous,  on  the  28th,  while 
he  was  assisting  at  the  holy  sacrifice  of  the  Mass. 

Like  the  majority  of  our  Protestant  ministers,  Mr.  Woodall 
was  bom  in  a  rural  district,  where  books  of  reference  are  sel- 
dom found ;  therefore  the  Jesuits,  who  are  megaphoning  through 
the  Laymen's  Association,  deemed  it  safe  to  dispose  of  Wycliffe, 
in  one  deceptive  sentence. 

The  impression  sought  to  be  made,  in  the  case  of  the  Great 
Reformer,  is,  that  he  lived  at  peace  with  Rome,  and  virtually 
died  while  celebrating  Rome's  distinctive  rite,  the  Mass. 

Yet,  any  one  who  has  access  to  the  Encyclopedia  Britannica 
— before  the  Jesuits  doctored  the  last  edition — will  at  once  realize 
how  the  Laymen  have  evaded  the  story  of  John  Wycliffe. 

(See  the  United  Editors'  Encyclopedia,  the  Columbian,  John- 
son's, Harmsworth's,  Appleton's,  Cassell's,  or  any  other,  except 
those  that  the  lying  Jesuits  have  mutilated  and  changed — as  they 
recently  were  permitted  to  do  with  the  Britannica.) 

Did  Wycliffe  live  and  die,  a  good  papist,  at  peace  zviith  Rome? 

Let  us  get  at  the   facts,  briefly:   using  the  latest  and  best 

(18) 


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lish  priest.  '     ^Ji  e„o.  y  A  I.  /o  seek  the  life  of  the  Eng- 

.  sr,™^-!:?^  ^'"•-"  -^^^"i^':^^s':^ 
the  pZ^^'Sf-^fc^'fets  ■'';'"':':;'•''"'  •/"-  ^"^-^  ^°'""  -'  «- 

In  other  words    the  •E„.vMr™./°"^°T';>'  "''"'  '"^-^  go^^l^l- 
Luther  did  at  am  d,  hcM,tti^  'P'r'"''  *°  *<=   Bihie,   as 

of  Italy  had  dSnThthTlitlfcemltr  "'  """""^'^  '^'■"°*- 

tofI^[;'^aK:rtf1^;l;."'--"  <=^-^  "■--  -   f-  power 

and  Jerome,  oVaccoj:,t'o'f%tt;;11'v;;:;]|ar^reV°''"  """' 

papaT:er,SS\ytot°ecth;::?-''=^  "■r'^^'  '^^<="'^"  '»^.  f™-" 
trial,  defwSSehloodtWr.", '''",""''  "  '"''''="■>'  '=='=<"■'  ^t  his 
away  fron,  Lmton  '  '^'^  1'"''=^  '^°"''  =>"'"  '^king  Wychffe 

papists  were  demanding  That  tehe  btntt'thl'Ske"'  ™''^"^"' 

"..2i^^:^t",;::^,^;:,,:LKr:nh:^'&?^    -""« -^^  ™^ 

at  nts^-lrLlrd^er^;;;/^^^^^^^^^^  TiS:!  rrr 

C<«„»»„„o„,  m  bread  and  wine,  is  zSa'rifke"  *' 

fronts:  .t:-::^S.or'to',!e\;fl-:i;;"1/-  '°'='"/  <"-'''«' 

:s-ar;:ife";-s;^SS^'™^ 

rw'  ,^rw ''r.'?^"'  Wycliffe,"  pages  419  and  20.) 
-Hut  did  Wvchffe  believe  thnt  fl-,«   r  ■ 

.«.nA«/' as  these  Jest'i^sMrecdyarseS"""™"  "'^  "«  ''"'^ 
/z/^if  ///(?  reverse  is  true 

und^r"thi^Zl*r.^LlL?:Sn  '"  *'  ^-"-  ^°<  ^'-n 


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"Renounced  by  W."  (Wycliffc,  of  course),  pages  341,  343, 

Contrary  to  Scripture,  344. 

Unsupported  by  early  tradition,  345. 

Opposed  to  the  senses,  346. 

Supported  by  false  metaphysics,  346. 

Consequences  of,  347. 

Idolatry  of,  348. 

Blasphemy  of,  349. 

Openly  attacked  by  IV.,  367. 

His  twelve  theses,  368." 

Now,  what  is  your  opinion  of  the  honesty  of  such  CathoHc 
laymen,  when  they  scatter  literature  which  claims  that  John 
Wycliffe  believed  in  "the  holy  sacrifice  of  the  Mass,"  and  re- 
ceived his  fatal  stroke  while  assisting  at  this  "sacrifice" — the 
supreme  conquest  that  Popery  makes  over  the  mind  of  man? 

Let  us  turn  to  the  last  page  cited  in  the  Index  of  Professor 
Lechler's  magnificent  biography  of  "the  Morning  Star  of  the 
Protestant  Reformation"  :  it  reads  : 

"In  the  summer  of  1381,  he  (Wyclifife)  published  twelve 
short  theses  upon  the  Lord's  Supper,  and  against  Transubstanti- 
ation,     .... 

These  theses  were  the  following: 

(1.)  The  consecrated  host  which  we  see  on  the  altar  is 
neither  Christ  nor  any  part  of  Him,  but  the  efficacious  sign  of 
Him." 

The  other  eleven  theses  are  variations  of  the  same  thought, 
the  12th  declaring  that  zvheaten  bread  is  the  only  kind  that  should 
be  used. 

(Roman  Catholicism,  in  many  parts  of  America,  make  the 
wafer  out  of  rice:  in  Ireland  and  Belgium,  out  of  potatoes.) 

Wyclifife  expressed  substantially  the  Protestant  idea,  as  to  the 
Supper,  and  he  uses  our  word  sacrament,  not  "sacrifice." 

The  two  words  mean  entirely  different  things. 

Wycliffe's  life  was  "always  in  danger"  (page  417),  but  he 
kept  himself  so  quietly,  under  his  powerful  protectors,  that  he 
"died  in  his  bed" ;  yet,  the  rage  of  the  papists,  relentless  and  hyena- 
like,c?(?.y^cra/(?rf  his  grave,  burnt  his  bones,  and  scattered  his  ashes 
in  zvaters  of  the  brook. 

When  you  consider  these  undeniable  historic  facts,  easily 
veirified  by  reference  to  standard  Histories  of  England,  His- 
tories of  the  Reformation,  Histories  of  Martyrs,  Biographies  of 
the  Reformers,  and  non-papalized  Encyclopedias,  what  do  you 
think  of  the  honesty  of  these  "Catholic  Laymen,"  who  have  ap- 
pointed themselves  your  teachers,  in  the  province  of  Roman 
Catholic  creed  and  record? 


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DID  THE  POPE  ""bless"   COPERNICUS   AND    HIS   GREAT   BOOK? 

Let  US  take  up  the  next  statement  made  by  these  self-appointed 
dissipators  of  "ignorance  and  prejudice." 

Refuting  the  assertion  that  the  Pope  resisted  the  progress 
of  scientific  research  and  discovery,  our  conciliatory  Catholic  Lay- 
men say :  - 

"Copernicus  died  in  his  1)ed,  of  dysentery,  on  the  24th  of  May, 
154,3,  while  in  the  act  of  reading  the  Pope's  blessing  for  having  dedi- 
cated to  him  that  great  scientific  work  of  which  Copernicus  was  ,:he 
author  and  which  caused  the  Ptolemaic  system  of  astronomy  to  be 
discarded  and  the  'Copernican'  system  which  is  now  accepted,  to  be 
substituted." 

Of  all  the  liars  that  ever  served  the  Devil,  the  Jesuits  are 
the  chiefest.  Their  secret  "theology"  teaches  them  to  lie,  and 
it  is  a  lesson  which  they  master. 

As  every  literary  man  knows, .  it  used  to  be  the  custom  of 
authors  to  court  favor  and  patronage  in  high  places,  by  dedi- 
cating their  books  to  the  great ;  and  this  dedication  was  ordinarily 
worded  in  terms  of  fulsome  flattery. 

The  author's  hope  was,  that  the  dedication  would  secure  him 
a  gratuity  in  money,  and  also  protection,  from  his  enemies. 

When  we  bear  this  in  mind,  the  acts  of  the  timorous  astron- 
omer, Copernicus,  in  dedicating  his  discovery  to  a  Pope,,  becomes 
doubtly  affecting. 

He  didn't  want  to  be  imprisoned  for  more  than  a  dozen  years, 
as  the  Pope  had  imprisoned  the  pioneer  of  physical  res'earch, 
Roger  Bacon :  he  didn't  want  to  be  burnt  at  the  stake,  as  the  Pope 
had  burnt  the  believer  in  a  plurality  of  worlds,  Giodano  Bruno; 
and  he  had  no  relish  for  being  tortured  by  the  Pope's  Roman 
Inquisition,  as  Galileo  was  tortured  for  having  discovered  thai' 
the  earth  moved  round  the  sun. 

Hoping  to  propitiate  the  fanatical  and  densely  ignorant  priests, 
Copernicus  did  dedicate  his  great  work  to  the  Pope;  but  what 
happened f 

The  Pope  damned  the  book,  and  had  it  listed  in  the  cata- 
logue of  forbidden  literature,  which  no  Catholic  can  read,  with- 
out being  thereby  automatically  (ipso  facto)  excommunicated 
and  consigned  to  hell! 

I  have  two  copies  of  the  Index  of  Prohibited  books,  the 
official  Index  Expurgatorious;  and  "that  great  scientific  work  of 
which  Copernicus  was  the  author"  is  listed,  in  both,  with  the 
damned. 

You  will  find  the  entry  on  page  72,  of  the  "Index,"  published 
by  the  Pope's  printers  at  the  Vatican,  in  Rome,  under  Pope  Pius 
VII.,  in  1776. 


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The  Title-page  exhibits  the  official  character  of  the  book — 
which  itself  is  dedicated  to  the  memory  of  Pope  Benedict  XIV. — 
and  the  fly-leaf  presents  a  picture  of  a  bonfire  being  made  out 
of  prohibited  books,  with  the  priests  feeding  the  holy  flames  by 
flinging  into  them  such  books  as  that  of  Copernicus,  while  two 
exceedingly  fat  cherubs,  on  wings,  and  with  a  trumpet  in  one  hand, 
support  the  keys  and  the  triple  crown  of  the  Pope. 

Turning  to  page  72,  we  find  the  entry  of  "the  great  scien- 
tific work  of  which  Copernicus  was  the  author" :  the  damna- 
tory notice  of  it  is  so  specific,  that  even  the  Catholic  Laymen  of 
Georgia  ought  to  know  they  will  lose  their  precious  souls,  \j  they 
dare  to  read  "that  great  scientific  work." 

If  the  Jiave  read  it,  they  are  even  now,  ipso  facto,  con- 
signed to  eternal  perdition. 

But  again  I  ask  you — what  do  you  think  of  the  honesty  of 
these  self-chosen  eradicators  of  "ignorance  and  prejudice"? 

Inasmuch  as  the  death  of  Copernicus  has  always  been  con- 
sidered one  of  the  most  touching  scenes  in  biographical  literature, 
I  will  here  copy  the  simple  facts,  given  in  the  Ninth  Edition  of 
the  Britannica,  published  in  1890,  by  Funk  &  Wagnalls,  who  were 
not  then  papal  colporteurs : 

"The  work  was  printed  at  Nuremberg  .  .  .  The  impres- 
sion had  just  been  completed  when  Copernicus  'was  seized  with 
dysentery,  followed  by  paralysis.' 

For  some  time  he  lingered,  and  on  the  day  of  his  death, 
only  a  few  hours  before  he  expired,  a  copy  of  his  work  .  .  . 
arrived,  and  was  placed  in  his  hands. 

He  touched  it,  and  seemed  conscious  of  what  it  was ;  but  after 
regarding  it  for  an  instant,  he  relapsed  into  a  state  of  insensibility, 
which  soon  terminated  in  death." 

The  writer  of  this  article  on  Copernicus  cites  a  long  list  of 
authorities,  and  his  statements  have  never  been  disputed. 

But  they  leave  the  Catholic  Laymen  in  bad  plight — don't  they? 

The  friend  who  was  supervising  the  printing  at  Nuremberg, 
sent  the  dying  author  a  first — perhaps  tlic  very  first — copy ;  and 
Copernicus  roused  himself,  just  a  moment,  and  seemed  to  know 
the  child  of  his  brain ;  then  he  passed  into  unconsciousness. 

These  Catholic  Laymen  allowed  their  Jesuit  prompters  to 
make  them  say,  that  Copernicus  was  reading  the  Pope's  letter,  at 
the  time  of  his  death;  when,  in  fact,  the  Pope  had  not  seen  the 
book,  and  Copernicus  was  too  far  gone  to  even  read  a  word  of 
his  own  immortal  work. 

Too  far  gone  to  feel  the  thrill  of  authorsJ^ip,  he  could  only 
gaze  on  his  book,  without  even  being  able  to  open  it. 


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These  self-appointed  instructors  of  Protestant  "ignorance  and 
prejudice,"  have  lent  their  names  to  the  statement,  that  the  Pope 
''blessed  a  work  which  the  Pope's  own  official  Index  shows  that  he 
damned/ 

What  are  we  to  think  of  such  Catholic  La}men? 
Are  they  the  innocent  dupes  of  their  priests? 

HOW   ABOUT   CRANMER  AND  LATIMER,   THE   PROTESTANT    MARTYRS? 

The  Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Catholic  Laymen  is  so 
well  pleased  with  his  setting"  us  right  on  W'ycliffe  and  Coper- 
nicus, that  he  proceeds,  with  cheerful  alacrity,  to  reconstruct  our 
notions  about  Cranmer  and  Latimer,  who  were  burnt  at  the  stake 
by  that  loveable  type  of  Catholic  Christianity,  Queen  Mary: 

Chairman  Farrell  says : 

"Cranmer  and  Latimer  were  both  tried,  condemned  and  exe- 
cuted in  strict  compliance  with  the  forms  of  English  laws,  laws  too, 
which  Cranmer  himself  had  forced  through  Parliament  and  which  he 
was  most  energetic  in  executing,  first  on  Catholics  like  More  and  Fisher 
and  Lady  Salisbury,  who  would  not  acknowledge  Henry  as  Pope,  then 
on  Protestants  who  would  not  subscribe  to  the  Catholic  doctrine  of 
the  Real  Presence,  finally  on  both  Catholics  and  Protestants  who  would 
not  adhere  to  the  Established  church  that  was  Ci^anmer's  pet  scheme 
under  Edward  VI.  The  victims  of  this  man's  unscrupulous  measures 
among  your  forbears  and  mine,  number  thousands,  hundreds  of  whom 
were  brought  to  the  stake,  while  others  were  beheaded,  tortured,  'ripped 
up,'  parboiled." 

Chairman  Farrell  then  trails  off  into  a  lengthy  diatribe  against 
Cranmer,  whom  the  priests  killed,  and  now  hate,  because  he 
was  so  actively  instrumental  in  giving  the  people  a  Bible  that  they 
could  read.  The  papists  wanted  the  Book  to  stay  buried  in  the 
dead  Latin  language;  and  Cranmer  was  one  of  those  who  deter- 
mined that  it  should  begin  to  live  in  English. 

The  Protestant  Bibles,  printed  in  plain  English,  forced  the 
Catholics  to  print  theirs  in  English;  but  they  have  never  forgiven 
the  men  who  compelled  them  to  do  this ;  and  they  insert,  in  every 
copy  of  their  English  Bible,  a  fly-leaf  "Admonition,"  warning  the 
lay  brothers  and  sisters  not  to  read  it. 

(Chairman  Farrell  never  read  the  Bible:  none  of  these  "Cath- 
olic Laymen"  has  read  it :  they  meekly  take  the  priests'  word  for 
what's  in  it.) 

Before  citing  you  to  any  Protestant  authority,  on  the  manner 
in  which  Blopdy  Queen  Mary  murdered  Cranmer,  who  was  Arch- 
bishop of  Caterbury,  and  who  had  been  the  closest  friend  of  King 
Henry  VIIL,  I  will  refer  you  to  the  Catholic  historian,  Dr.  John 
Lingard;  and  you  may  judge  from  his  book  how  truthful  these 


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Laymen  are,  in  saying  that  "Cranmer  and  Latimer  were  both 
tried  in  strict  compliance  with  the  forms  of  EngHsh  law." 

On  page  401,  Dr.  Lingard  clearly  states  that,  while  Cran- 
mer  had  "proposed"  a  law  to  punish  Catholics  for  professing  a 
belief  >in  Transubstantiation  and  "the  papal  supremacy,"  the  pro- 
position did  not  become  a  law,  owing  to  the  death  of  the  young 
King,  Edward  VL,  son  of  Henry  VIIL 

Therefore,  the  standard  Catholic  historian  knocks  the  pins 
from  under  these  Laymen,  who  allege  that  Cranmer  and  Latimer 
were  the  victims  of  "laws  which  Cranmer  himself  had  forced 
through  Parliament." 

Dr.  Lingard  expressly  states  (page  401)  that  Queen  Mary 
revived  the  hideous  old  laws  against  the  Lollards — laws  that  were 
obsolfte  before  Cranmer  was  born! 

Cranmer,  therefore,  had  nothing  whatever  to  do  with  the  mak- 
ing of  the  "law"  under  which  the  Romanists  murdered  him. 

As  to  the  trials,  Dr.  Lingard  states  that  the  Protestants  were 
haled  before  the  Roman  prelate,  Gardiner,  who  presided  in  a  papal 
court  with  sixteen  Catholic  bishops;  and  this  ecclesiastical  in- 
quisition began  to  burn  "heretics." 

Cranmer  himself  zvas  served  with  a  summons  to  appear  be- 
fore THE  POPE,  in  80  days;  and  both  Latimer  and  Ridley  were 
condemned  to  death  by  the  Roman  bishops  of  Lincoln,  Gloucester, 
and  Bristol,  acting  as  commissioners  for  the  Pope's  legate. 

(See  Lingard,  page  402.) 

Do  the  Catholic  Laymen  of  Georgia  hold,  that  this  proceed- 
ing was  "a  trial,"  according  to  the  strict  forms  of  English  laws"  ? 

Is  that  the  kind  of  trial  which  the  Protestants  may  again 
expect,  when  the  Pope's  treason-gangs  "Make  America  Catho- 
lic"? 

Who  condemned  Archbishop  Cranmer?  Where  was  it 
done? 

Dr.  Lingard  tells  you  with  a  robust  Englishman's  innate  love 
of  Truth : 

"At  ROME,  on  the  expiration  of  the  eighty  days,  the  royal 
proctors  demanded  judgment;  and  paul/'(the  pope)  "in  a  pri- 
ate  consistory,  pronounced  the  usual  sentence." 

Tried  by  an  Italian  priest,  in  Rome,  in  private,  and  in  the 
absence  of  the  accused,  without  hearing  a  word  in  his  defense! 

"The  usual  sentence,"  was  death,  of  course ;  and  Cranmer  was 
so  terrified  by  it,  that  his  courage  failed  him. 

He  piteously  pleaded  for  life,  offering  to  recant;  but  the 
Queen  was   inexorable,   and  the   old  man   went  to   his   terrible 


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ordeal  at  the  stake,  redeeming  by  a  heroic  fortitude  in  the  flames, 
the  many  errors  of  his  career,  and  the  momentary  weakness  which 
had  unmanned  him. 

May  I  repeat  my  question :  What  is  to  be  thought  of  the 
HONESTY  of  these  Catholic  Laymen,  when  they  so  shamelessly 
belie  the  facts  of  history f 

I  confute  them  with  the  Catholic  historian;  but  if  you  will 
consult  the  Protestant  authorities,  your  feeling  of  amazement  and 
disgust,  at  the  lies  of  these  Catholic  Laymen,  will  be  deepened. 

(Read  Knight,  Green,  Aubrey,  Turner,  Hume,  Froude,  Hallam, 
Harmsworth,  Foxe,  Strickland,  Burnett,  Sanderson,  or  any  other 
standard  work.) 

cranmer's  '^'"thousands"  of  victims  ""among  your  forbears 

AND   MINE/ 

Cranmer  was  the  Catholic  prelate  who  granted  to  the  Cath- 
olic King,  Henry  VHL,  a  divorce  from  his  Catholic  wife,  Cath- 
erine of  Aragon,  after  the  Italian  Pope  had  played  politics  with 
the  king's  application  for  several  years. 

(In  our  own  day,  we  have  seen  the  Italian  Pope  grant  divorces 
to  the  rich  Drexels  of  Philadelphia,  and  to  the  rich  Crokers  of 
New  York ;  and  Cranmer  knew  that  the  Italian  Popes  had  recent- 
ly granted  divorces  to  their  own  bastard  children,  and  to  such 
usable  kings  as  Louis  XII.  of  France :  but  the  Pope  of  Henry 
Eighth's  day  was  so  completely  in  the  power  of  Catherine's 
nephew,  the  Emperor  Charles  V.,  that  King  Henry  could  not  get 
his  divorce.) 

The  fact  that  Cranmer  ignored  the  Italian  Pope  and  gave  the 
king  a  dissolution  of  his  marriage,  was  another  reason  why  the 
Papists  thirsted  for  his  blood. 

Our  Catholic  Laymen  inherit  this  holy  Roman  hatred,  and 
they  now  tell  us  that  Cranmer  did  great  execution  "among  your 
forbears  and  mine,"  burning  a  few,  beheading  a  few,  torturing 
a  few,  ripping  up  a  few,  and  parboiling  a  few ! 

Then  Cranmer  was  almost  as  bad  as  Pope  Innocent  III., 
who  instituted  "religious"  massacres  of  men,  women,  and  children; 
set  up  the  Inquisition  in  Rome,  and  roasted  "heretics"  by  slow 
fires,  after  haing  racked  their  joints  apart  with  hideous  engines, 
made  for  the  purpose,  by  the  holy  Roman  church. 

Like  all  Protestants  of  those  days,  Cranmer  had  been  reared 
and  educated  in  Popery,  and  had  been  taught  that  religions  mur- 
der was  godly. 

He  could  not  at  once  emancipate  himself  entirely  from  his 
Catholic  education — the  force  of  which  we  now  see  illustrated 
by  "the  Catholic  Laymen  of  Georgia." 


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On  page  380,  Dr.  John  Lingard's  CafJwIic  history  brings  the 
worst  charges  against  the  erring  Cranmer ;  and  these  are  the  very 
words  of  that  Romanist  historian : 

"Several  were  put  to  death  for  preaching  new  doctrines :  one 
of  these,  a  woman  named  Bocher,  would  have  been  spared,  but 
Cranmer  urged  the  king  to  put  his  signature  to  the  warrant. 

Another  victim  was  Von  Parris.  a  Dutchman,  and  a  surgeon 
in  London.  He  denied  the  divinity  of  Christ  .  .  .  and  the 
unhappy  man  was  committed  to  the  flames." 

That's  the  worst.  Dr.  Lingard  hated  Cranmer's  memory,  as 
all  good  Papists  do ;  but  the  Doctor  was  an  Jionest  man. 

Against  Cranmer's  memory,  he  brings  no  charges  of  "thou- 
sands" of  victims:  no  charges  of  "torture":  no  charge  of  "par- 
boiling." 

The  solitary  case  mentioned — ]\Irs.  Bocher's — is  bad  enough, 
God  knows,  but  it  happened  in  an  age  when  Rome  had  taught 
all  Christendom  to  murder  human  beings  in  the  name  of  Christ. 
(She  was  not  a  Catholic,  but  an  extreme  schismatic.) 

As  to  the  Dutchman  who  denied  the  divinity  of  Christ,  he 
could  not  have  dwelt  in  Maryland  under  Lord  Baltimore's  charter, 
nor  in  Mexico  under  the  rule  of  Dictator  Diaz  and  and  the  in- 
famous Archbishop  Mora — of  whom  Cardinal  Gibbons  is  so  ex- 
tremely fond. 

Under  Diaz  and  Mora,  eight  Protestants  were  publicly  burnt, 
on  the  Square,  at  Texacapa,  in  November,  1895,  not  because  they 
denied  the  divinity  of  Christ,  but  because  they  denied  the  divinity 
of  the  Italian  Pope. 

Do  the  Catholic  Laymen  of  Georgia  remember  this  case? 

Among  those  eight  victims  of  papal  fire  in  1895,  were  five 
men,  two  zvomen,  and  one  little  girl.' 

It  was  tlie  law  of  your  foreign  cJiurch,  that  murdered  those 
Mexicans — the  same  satanic  law  which  massacred  the  Albigenses, 
the  Huguenots,  the  Waldensians,  the  Lollards,  the  Presbyterians, 
the  Baptists,  and  the  Episcopalians. 

That'  infernal  law  remains  on  the  statute  book  of  your  for- 
eign church;  and,  if  you  American  foot-kissers  succeed  in  your 
many-sided  efforts  to  "Make  America  Catholic''  that  law  will 

DELUGE  THIS   COUNTRY   WITH    INNOCENT   BLOOD. 

There  is  not  a  kingdom  in  Europe  that  has  not  run  red,  in 
consequence  of  Rome's  murderous  laws  and  Inquisition. 

From  Portugal  and  Spain,  to  the  British  Isles;  from  the 
Northern  limits  of  Bohemia,  to  the  sunny  plains  of  Southern 
France ;  from  the  shores  of  the  Mediterranean  Sea,  to  the  stormy 
waves  of  the  Baltic,  your  hellish  system  of  Popery  has  glutted 
itself  on  human  agonv  and  human  blood. 


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